Summary

honcho_search in Hermes Honcho plugin can return empty/irrelevant results because it queries the wrong observation direction.

For user-memory retrieval, Hermes should query the assistant's perspective of the user (assistant observed user), not the user's self-perspective.

Problem

In practical runs, honcho_search produced empty results while memory existed in Honcho. Root cause was directional mismatch in the plugin session/search path.

Reproduction

1. Use Hermes with Honcho memory enabled.
2. Persist user-context facts through normal conversation/tooling.
3. Call honcho_search for known stored facts.
4. Observe empty or low-signal output despite existing memory.

Expected

• honcho_search should resolve context from the assistant-observed user memory direction.
• Search should return relevant excerpts when memory exists.

Impact

• Makes Honcho memory appear broken in Hermes workflows.
• Leads to repeated user prompts and lower trust in long-term memory retrieval.

Proposed fix

Align search direction with observation semantics used by the plugin/session identity model.

Related PRs

• Hermes fix PR: fix(honcho): align honcho_search retrieval with observation direction #5658
• Related Honcho config parity PR (self-hosted embedding compatibility): feat(embeddings): make embedding model and vector dimensions configurable plastic-labs/honcho#512